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Admissions director Ben Macrory describes the school as a "living laboratory" where the studentslearn about river ecology, grow rice and even build their own bamboo structures. There is a breedingprogram on campus for an endangered bird species, the Bali Rothschild Starling. While learningwithout walls would seem to cause disciplinary problems, Cynthia classifies the school as"ADDfriendly". Dyslexic children who arrive at Green School are, within a week, focused andcomfortable within "the chaos of nature".In many ways, the growth of the Green School resonates more along a vernacular tradition than theformal architectural canon. As described in "Architecture without Architects", Bernard Rudofsky'sexhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, humans traditionally sought challenging sites that create"exhilaration generated by superb landscape". The Green School is built upon steep terrains, so thearchitecture is a part of, not apart from the context. The overall plan instigates a sense ofexploration and cohabitation with nature.

The Green School is built upon steep terrains, so the architecture is a part of, not apart from thecontext

With the mission to create "global citizens", the Green School makes an architecture that symbolisesthe philosophy and pedagogy. The most elaborate structure is the impressive "Heart of the School",with three interweaving cones that resemble double helixes. Three spiral staircases link the floors


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that house the administration, computer lab, arts spaces and the library. Built from Petung, the mostmassive bamboo variety, the complex is 60 meters long and soars 19 meters into the sky. Everyprominent visitor, such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, passes under the alangalangvaults. This pantheon of bamboo imparts the seriousness of the school's agenda.

Within the restrictions of bamboo, variations of form flourish. In his Essay on Architecture , Marc-Antoine Laugier speculates how the foundation for all architecture relates to the first shelter, madeby spanning tree trunks and fallen tree branches. The frontispiece is an etching in which a goddess ofarchitecture gestures toward the truthful structure. "By imitating nature, art was born", Laugierdeclares. Along a similar vein, the design of the Green School inspires a culture of localised creativity,as opposed to high-tech fabrication. As a craftsman builds upon a few basic techniques and thengrows them into infinite variations, the construction of the Green School is akin to the hand weavingof a textile, uniform in the material, yet elaborate in composition.

Green School

Bali, Indonesia Architects: PT Bamboo PureDesign team: John Hardy (owner and inspirator); Aldo Landwehr (creative director), Cheong YewKuan, Effan Adhiwira, Miya Buxton, Hanno Burtscher, Phillip Beck, Stephanie Gunawan, ErinJohnson, Kendra Spanton, Yulianto Maliang, I Nyoman Kerta, I Gusti Ngurah Putra Wiarsa, HeruWijayanto (designers), Joerg Stamm (bamboo consultant)Structural engineering: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Gadjah Mada University,


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Jogjakarta, Ir. Morisco, Ashar Saputra, Inggar S. IrawatiConstruction supervision: PT Bamboo PureClient: Yayasan Kul KulBuilt area: 5,534 m2Cost: approx. 3.120.000 USDDesign phase: June 2005 September 2007Construction phase: February 2007 December 2007

Bamboo bridges that connect the two areas of the campus. The Green School consists of some fiftystructures and pavilions that have, for the most part, no external walls


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The Green School (Bali) is a primary and secondary school located along the Ayung River [1] near

Ubud, Bali , Indonesia .[2] The schools ecologically -sustainable design and focus on sustainability

education for young students have been widely reported. Run as a private school for children from

kindergarten to high-school age ,[3] the school has attracted world -wide attention .[4]

The school was founded by John and Cynthia Hardy [3] in September 2008 with 98 students, with a

mission to provide children with an holistic education with sustainability at its core . [5] The Hardys

reportedly conceived of Green School in 2006 after reading Alan Wagstaffs Three Springs concept

document for an educational village community . [6]

By 2010, The School had 245 students [aged 3 16] ,[4] and 2011 enrollment was over 300 .[5] Most of

its students are foreigners with Indonesians making up only 20% of the intake, and most of them are

on scholarships .[5]

According to Australias ABC Radio, This school is attracting world -wide attention because of its

commitment to sustainability as the philosophical core of its education curricul um. [4] One

2010 BBC report contrasted that while Indonesia is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse

gases and has been struggling to improve its record on the environment, The Green School is

teaching students to protect and care for their environment . [7]

Contents

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1 Ecological Design

2 Curriculum

3 Board of Directors

4 Awards

5 International Media Coverage

6 References

Ecological Design [edit ]

The school's 75+ buildings are cooled and powered by renewable energy sources including micro-

hydro power ,[8] from a hydroelectric vortex , [5] solar power ,[2] and bio-diesel .[2][8] The schools campus

is designed on an organic permaculture system intended to work wi th the natural ecology of the

land ,[8] and the schools students cultivate an organic garden as part of their school activities . [8] The

schools buildings are built primarily from renewable resources including bamboo , [3] local grass, and

traditional mud walls .[8] The primarily-Bamboo construction of the campus has also been reported

upon as an example of large-scale building potential of bamboo architecture ,[9][10] including The Heart

of the School a 60 Meter long [10] stilt-structure constructed with 2500 bamboo poles .[11] The school

also utilizes renewable building materials for its other needs, and everything - even the desks - is

made of bamboo. [12]
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Curriculum [edit ]

The school reportedly "prepares students to be stewards of the environment, teaching them to be

critical and creative thinkers, who champion the sustainability of the world and the

environment. "[6]

Ecological sustainability is a mainstay of its curriculum. Subjects taught there includeEnglish, mathematics and science, including ecology, the environment and sustainability, as well as

the creative arts .[2] Courses at the school include Global Perspectives, Environmental Management,

and 21st Century Science .[3] The curriculum combines standard International Baccalaureate programs

with green studies such as carbon-footprint analysis and organic farming .[12] For example, sixth-

graders calculate the school's annual carbon footprint, then plant bamboo to offset it .[3]

Board of Directors [edit ]

The school's Chairman of the Board of Directors is Roger J. Hamilton . Other board members include

Ronald Stones, Nadya Hutagalung , and Mickey Ackerman .[13]

Awards [edit ]

Green School was awarded the 2012 "Greenest School on Earth" award by the Center for Green

Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council .[14][15] The school was also a finalist for the 2010 Aga Khan

Award for Architecture .[1][16]

International Media Coverage [edit ]

The school has been covered in television reports aired on ABC (Australia) ,[4]

CNN (USA) ,[5]

and theBBC (UK) .[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_School_(Bali)

Location: Badung, Bali, Indonesia (South-East Asia) Architect: PT BambuClient: Yayasan Kul KulCompleted: 2007Design: 2006Site size: 7'542 m

Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably.Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They establishedthe Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo plantsthrough presenting bamboo seedlings to local rice farmers; and PT Bambu, a for-profit design and constructioncompany that promotes the use of bamboo as a primary building material, in an effort to avoid the furtherdepletion of rainforests. The Green School, a giant laboratory built by PT Bambu, is located on a sustainablecampus straddling both sides of the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, within a lush jungle with native plants andtrees growing alongside sustainable organic gardens. The campus is powered by a number of alternative energysources, including a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, a hydro-powered vortex generator andsolar panels. Campus buildings include classrooms, gym, assembly spaces, faculty housing, offices, cafes andbathrooms. A range of architecturally significant spaces from large multi-storey communal gathering places tomuch smaller classrooms are a feature of the campus. Local bamboo, grown using sustainable methods, is usedin innovative and experimental ways that demonstrate its architectural possibilities. The result is a holistic green
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community with a strong educational mandate that seeks to inspire students to be more curious, more engagedand more passionate about the environment and the planet

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ProjectBali Green School Designed with BambooCredits: 2010 B a l i G r e e n S c h o o l

The Green School in Bali, Indonesia, strives to be as energy independent as possible while constructinggreen buildings using 99 percent natural materials mainly bamboo, grass and mud for its buildingsthat are cooled naturally. It implemented an experiment in micro-hydro power generation, using a nine-meter vortex generator installed in the river. In addition, it produces methane from cow manure forfueling stoves, along with a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, installed solar panels, anddeveloped a gasification unit that will use rice husks and other organic materials to produce electricity.And theres a lot of or ganic material - the campus is blanketed by an organic permaculture system

designed by international and local experts. Students engage in farming, with the Schools gardensgrowing rice, fruits and vegetables, and crops such as fruits, vegetables, palm sugar and chocolate aresold at the schools Green Warung that students at the School help to manage. Students are involved ingrowing and maintaining an edible maze, producing coconut oil from the campus trees, harvestinghoney, and breeding fish in campus aquaculture ponds. Our composting systems are already in placeand will continue to develop as more and more students, teachers, and staff move to the land. Thiscampus consists of several structures that include classrooms, a gymnasium, conference rooms, facultyhousing, offices, a kitchen, cafes and a bathroom. Located in Badung, Bali, the project is 7542 squaremeters. Green School was named a finalist in the 2010 Aga Khan Awards for Architecture (AKAA), whichhonors projects that exhibit architectural e xcellence as well as improve peoples overall quality of life.

The Bali Green School is set in the jungle village of Sibang near Ubud in Bali, Indonesia. 2010 Digital Globe / GeoEye
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Bali Green School Ode to Bamboo

By Esther Au Yong , Social Entrepreneurship Forum

FAMED Canadian jeweller John Hardy is not a man who does things in half-measures.

When he had a dream to teach children how to live sustainably, he not only built Green School Bali arguably the first of its kind in the world, offering a holistic education of traditional math and sciencesubjects paired with a green curriculum and a creative arts programme he used what he believes isthe most eco-friendly and sustainable building material on Earth: bamboo.

In Hardys case, this penchant and belief in bamboo has led him and his wife, Cynthia, to launch theMeranggi Foundation to encourage farmers to plant bamboo, create PT Bambu as a design hotbed andproduction facility for bamboo buildings and furniture, and open Bambu Indah, a hotel based onsustainability.

Along the way, he b uilt what could possibly be the worlds largest bamboo building, the Heart of School,a grand, imposing, three-storey structure, located within Green School Bali.

Located 20 minutes North of Denpasar and 15 minutes South of Ubud,Green Schools eight -hectare campus sits among lush vegetation, divided by the Ayung River. It looksmore like a serene, though rustic, holiday resort than a school.

The schools tagline is Equipping Children For 2025. By that, the Hardys want, besides teaching thestandard International Baccalaureate (IB) and International General Certificate of Secondary Education(IGCSE) syllabus, to inculcate in their students the love of learning.

The Green Studies programme includes topics like carbon footprint analysis, water studies and even,organic farming and gardening. Within the Creative Arts and physical education programmes, studentsdelve into yoga and batik painting using natural dyes made from vegetation on site, and martial arts,with the Balinese traditional art of Mepantingan being an important component.

Students, aged between three and 15, learn by doing, with each child tending to their very ownvegetable patch.

And as part of that commitment to greening the environment, Green School is built entirely out ofbamboo even its blackboards, desks, chairs and lamps.
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Bamboo is the latest darling of eco-conscious architects, designers and manufacturers all over the world.The demand worldwide is high for bamboo for clothing, flooring, furniture and as building material.

Bamboos en vironmental benefits arise largely out of its ability to grow and spread quickly in somecases, one meter a day without the need for fertilizers, pesticides or much water.

A bamboo grove also releases some 35 per cent more oxygen into the air than a similar-sized stand oftrees. One hectare of bamboo can sequester up to 12 tons of carbon a year.

Bamboo also reaches structural maturity in four to five years and produces a crop each year (comparedto 30 to 50 years for most tropical hardwood trees), helping to improve soil conditions and preventerosion along the way. Bamboo is so fast-growing that it can yield 20 times more timber than trees onthe same area.

For the Hardys, bamboo was chosen not because there was lack of a better material in current times,that is. It was chosen with an eye to the future.

John said, in an email interview: Green School chose bamboo in the spirit of plenty. With rapidlyescalating world cement prices, not to mention the sheer amount of fossil fuel that cement consumes,we must look to alternative building materials.

The world needs it. We have run out of cheap natural resources. Bamboo is a renewable resource, whichsequesters carbon into the bargain.

Some cement was used, however. While most of the cement is primarily underground, a small

percentage of the classroom floors are made from cement, but in general we want Green School to bereally green, which means less cement.

In part, they have also chosen bamboo for the children.

Frankly, it is hard to talk to studen ts about sustainability while they are using the last piece ofrainforest for their chair and their table. It is the painful truth that they are going to have to stretch toget enough rain forest timber to build their homes.

Bamboo is available and plenty , and when it is treated with borax salt, it is rendered immune to thebugs that like to eat it, so it becomes a permanent material.

Every student at Green School will have an opportunity to plant his or her own bamboo and, eventually,four to five years down the line, will have a chance to harvest, treat and build something with thatbamboo, he added.

John has certainly created beautiful structures with bamboo.

Not only do they blend in seamlessly with the environment the local craftsmen and their time-honoured traditional building techniques no doubt played a big part in this the Green School buildingsare engineering marvels in their own right.

Take the schools administrative centre, the Heart of School.

Heart of School, built at a cost of US$225,000, is a majestic, three-storey building containing threeinterconnecting spirals. Towering over 20 meters tall, it enjoys over 2,000 sq m of floor space. Buildingthe structure construction started in late 2008, has taken 2,630 bamboo poles and 10,000 strips ofalang-alang roofing. It houses the school library, IT laboratory, meeting rooms, exhibition spaces andoffices.

Johns passion and belief in bamboo doesnt just end with the school and its children.

Through the Meranggi Foundation, he encourages local Balinese farmers to grow bamboo. TheFoundation works with farmers across Bali by providing seedlings of commercially viable bamboo toparticipating farmers free of charge.

The Foundation maintains detailed planting records, monitor bamboo growth rates and the associatedcarbon capture, and secures markets for future bamboo trade.

It has now already planted 15,000 seedlings with farmers across Bali. It is estimated that in sevenyears, that will yield 1,500,000 poles enough to grow 150 new building s every year.

However, the journey is just beginning for the Meranggi Foundation.

In an interview with Green School student for the schools student newsletter, Chris Majors, the bamboonurserys manager, shared that some farmers they approach dont want any involvement in what weredoing, and some want hundreds of plants right away what weve learned is not to do hard sells.

Work with farmers who are willing and will help spread the bamboo word, he added.

A change in perspective will take more than a few months The potential of bamboo has not yet beenembraced fully by the Balinese. It will be quite a while before farmers come to us after the first

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But ever the epitome of someone who lives the life he believes in, John has this advice:

If you need a lot of timber in the future, dont look for wood, look for bamboo.

It fixes a huge amount of carbon in the soil and this is a good solution in the world of ever escalatingproblems. It is a rapid solution to some of the problems that are facing us.

Plant bamboo.

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This Green School is founded by John and Cynthia Hardy, located in Badung, Bali,Indonesia. This building built to motivate communities to live sustainably. Thebuilding is made of bamboo as the material, developed by Meranggi Foundation andPT Bambu. The campus building is consist of classrooms, gym, assembly spaces,faculty housing, offices, cafes and bathrooms. It has a number of alternative energysources, including a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, a hydro-powered vortex generator and solar panels.
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Green School bridge

Green School classroom
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Green School structure model

Green School kitchen
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Green School Field

Green School Hall
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Green School

Green School front
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Green School soccer field

Green School classroom 2


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Green School pond


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Green School centre

Green School bridge to class
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Green School activity area

natural green school


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Green School lounge


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Green School natural environtment


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Green School wave house

Green School roof structure
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Green School dome

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Green School classroom 7Design of University

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